SPORTS

Siblings Nadia, Dev win TT titles
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Boys: final : Dev Saini (DAVP-8) b Prateek Gupta (MM-21), 17-21, 21-19, 21-15; semi-finals: Dev Saini b Shreyansh (St John’s-26), 21-5, 21-7; Prateek Gupta b Sahil Sharma, 21-14, 25-23; Quarter-finals: Shreyansh b Rakesh, 21-13, 18-21, 21-9; Sahil b Manik, 21-9, 21-17; Dev Saini b Preetinder, 21-8, 21-11; Prateek b Sunny Mattu, 21-8, 25-23.

Adventure sports festival

The Giani Zail Singh Institute of Adventure and Water Sports, Chandigarh, organised a prize distribution function at the skating rink, Sector 10, of the 4th Giani Zail Singh Adventure Sports festival held last week in swimming, skating and other events. The Governor of Haryana, Babu Parmanand, was the chief guest and gave away the prizes. He in his speech stressed the need for adventure sports in the life of a student. On this occasion, Mr Surinder Singh Virdi, president of the institute, presented a memento to the chief guest. A colourful cultural programme was presented on the occasion.

Carom tourney

Anu Papneja of St Stephen’s School, Sector 45, Chandigarh, defeated Paramdeep Singh of SD Public School, Sector 32, in the second round of the men singles section of the Raj Kumar Babuta Memorial Prize Money Carom Ranking Tournament which began here today at St Stephen’s School. Earlier the tournament was inaugurated by Mr Charles Samuel, Principal, Mount Carmel School, Sector 46.

Mukesh Piplani, Sanjay Negi, Jagdish Dhir and Sudhir Sidhu moved into the fourth round of the men singles event, while Dilmeet entered the third round of the women singles section. Earlier Shikha Nanda and Nidhi Patwal made it to the second round of the women singles.

Cricket tournament

A fine performance by Dhawal Lekhi who scored 37 runs and claimed five wickets for 26 runs helped Army Public School, Chandi Mandir, to beating Blue Bird School, Panchkula, by five wickets in the District Schools Cricket Tournament for under-16 section organised by the District Panchkula Cricket Association. The tournament is being played at the Sector 5 cricket grounds, Panchkula.

In other matches of the day, Satluj Public School, Panchkula, outplayed Manav Mangal School, Sector 11, Panchkula by five wickets.

Summer league cricket

An unbeaten knock of 101 runs by MP Singh helped Godrej Cricket Club in defeating LIC Sports club by seven wickets to sail into the semi-final of the ‘A’ division of the 5th Summer League Cricket Tournament played at the Cricket stadium, Sector 16, here today. In an other match of the day, Pace Cricket club outscored DAV Coaching Centre by 31 runs to move into the final of the ‘B’ division, which will be played tomorrow.

YPS players for international squash tournaments
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, May 26
Three squash players of Yadavindra Public School, SAS Nagar, have been chosen for two international squash tournaments to be held in Malaysia and Singapore. They were among the 32 players from all over India. Stating this, Amitoj Inder Singh, a coach who will also accompany them for the two tournaments, said the boys were selected on the basis of trials held recently.

The three selected players are, Mahir Singh of Class IX, Harinder Pal of Class VII and Jai Singh Sekhon of Class IX. First they will participate in the Milo All Star Malaysian Junior Open Meet to be held from May 30 to June 3 at Selangor (Malaysia) and then in the Wilson Singapore Junior Open Squash Championship to be held from June 4 to 9. After that they will undergo specialised coaching from Mr Fahim Gul, a national coach of Singapore, from June 10 to 17.

The above tournaments are of the players in the age group of under-11 to under-19. Amitoj Inder Singh said nearly 500 players from various countries would participate in these tournaments. The boys will leave tomorrow.

Meanwhile, in the Bank of Punjab-ASPN squash tournament, which concluded this afternoon at SAS Nagar, Abhey won two titles, one each in under-11 and under-12 section, while under-13 title went in favour of Harinder Pal. In under-13 round-robin match rankings, Manpreet Malhi was at top, followed by Jai Singh Sekhon and Harkirat Singh.

ADMINISTRATION

‘Tax net to be widened’
Our Correspondent

Chandigarh, May 26
‘‘Five crore assessees will be brought in the income tax bracket in the next three years,” said Mr J.S. Ahluwalia, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax for North-West, at a seminar on Finance Act, 2001, here today.

The seminar was organised by the Chandigarh branch (NIRC) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Mr Ahluwalia said the Income Tax Department would be reconstructed and the process of tax collection would be computerised. He said the junior staff of the department would be removed and the lowest ranking official would be the Tax Assistant.

Mr Ahluwalia said, “We will not call assessees to our offices for verification of returns. This will be possible once the department is fully computerised.”

Mr S.K. Sampath, a senior chartered accountant of New Delhi, talked about amendments in the Finance Act, 2001, and penalties for non-compliance. Mr Baldev Garg, Chairman of the Chandigarh branch (NIRC), the seminar had been conducted to understand the amendments in the right perspective. It was decided to educate public to maintain regular account books and file tax returns in time.

The others who spoke on the occasion were the UT Commissioner of Income Tax, the UT Additional Commissioner of Income Tax, and income tax officials of Chandigarh and Panckula.